Let's hear it for the bigots....

Tenn. Senate OKs ban on teaching of homosexuality

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_XGR_TENNESSEE_SCHOOLS_SEXUALITY?SITE=AZMES&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Ger shelves

Watch the following distance

If you're like most drivers, you are in the habit of following way too close to the car in front of you at highway speeds. Few of us leave the recommended minimum 130' distance at 65mph. Most of us are lucky to have 30' between us and the car in front of us. I regularly follow too close, even on the bike. This morning I got a good reminder of why this is a bad thing...

I was getting on the parkway and approaching highway speed (65mph). There was a large pickup tuck about 100' in front of me. With no warning I see a 4' piece of tail pipe fall out from under the truck. Since this was a big truck, it was a big pipe. It was easily 6" in diameter, complete with a few bends and an exhaust hanger sticking out.

Luckily for me, the road was recently repaved and still smooth. The pipe skidded down the highway relatively straight, tracking slightly to the left and since I had 100' warning was able to safely do a lane change to avoid it. The car that came on right behind me was not so lucky. I saw him swerve to the right and almost take out a few large road cones (they are doing road work) because he was maybe 30 feet behind me since the pipe was now sideways and taking up half the lane and doing maybe 40mph. He never saw the pipe till I changed lanes and by then he was maybe 50' from it. If the road was rough, the pipe could easily have caught on something and went tumbling wildly.

So, please back off at highway speeds. It could save you alot of pain.

Bras

Taking Katie bra shopping.  This should be interesting.